TIES BROKEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1936, Page 5

TIES BROKEN.

UNHAPPY MARRIAGES. UNDEFENDED DIVORCES. JUDGE GRANTS 28 DECREES. A further sitting of the Supreme. Court was held before Mr. Justice Ostler this morning to con.«i<ler undefended petitions iu divorce, and in two hours his Honor her.rd 28 suits. The record number of 330 undefended petitions were set down for hearing for the second quarterly session of the Court, and of this number about 30 remain to be heard at a further sitting next mouth. The following decrees were granted: — On the ground of separation.—Sidney Joseph Harris (Mr. Hart), against Edith Daisy Harris; Barry Drew Ingall (Mr. Matthews), against Eliza Waterman Ingall; Rosine Munro (Mr. Hogben), against Arthur C'edric Munro; Catherine Matilda Chisholm (Mr. North). against Royston Noel Chisholm; Gerald Everett (Mr. C. Xneddcii), against Marcella Adelaide Everett; Grace Greenhalch (Mr. Turner), against Wilfred Greenhalch'; Elsie Gladys Sefont (Mr. Noble), against Victor Leonard Sefont; Norma Gwendoline Spurdle (Mr. Lennard), against Wilfred Spurdle; Kitty Elizabeth Jremonger (Mr. Schramm), against .Joseph 1 reinoiiger; Victor Xoventa (Mr. Eoy), against Edith May Xoventa; Alfred William Willis Robinson (Mr. Cren), agiiinst Florence Eileen Robinson, Ruth Violet Oilman (Mr. A. Moody), against Maurice Harold Vincent Oilman, Robert William Cook (Mr. Skelton), against Kathleen Mary Cook. On the ground of desertion: —James Fulton (Mr. Jenkins) against Sarah Ann Fulton; Alexander 'Mitchell Stewart (Mr. Towle) against Margaret Eleanor Sarah Stewart; Archibald Robert Barker (Mr. Haddow) against Victoria Rena Barker; Percy Laurence Ghent (Mr. Hart) against May Ghent; Hilda Agnes Burgess (Mr. A. Moody) against Leonard Samuel Burgess; Amy Lorimei (Mr. Skelton) against John Butler Lorimer. On the ground of adultery:—Alfred William Whi(je (Mr. Matthews) against Evelyn Alice White; Gwennyth Myrtle Anderson (Mr. A. Moody) against Alexander Stanley Anderson; William Ernest Richards (Mr. Schramm) against Madelaine -Richards; Dulcie Margerson Harris (Mr. Turner) against Clarence Hector Harris. On the ground of failure to comply with an order for restitution of conjugal rights:—Frederick Charles Smith (Mr. Matthews) against Edith Smith; Gwladys Anne Brocas (Mr. Skelton) against Thomas Ouv Robert Brocas, Norman Brewer Colgan (Mr. A. M. Goulding) against Gwen Colgan. An order for restitution of conjugal ricrhts was granted Emily Crissa Scelly (Mr. Anderson) against Robert Milton Scelly.